Re: Asus Eee PC 1015PN - graphic cards: Optimus and ION

Dear mtron,

Thank you very much for your reply. Currently I made a fresh Ubuntu installation as said so I am writing from my 1015pn (with two graphic cards enabled and vulcanic temperature under the keyboard ). Currently /var/log/Xorg.0.log (I think you are referring to this) is the following:

Now I cannot install nvidia-current package, I tried to install xorg-video-abi-11 package but I went into the problem described.
Up to now I don't think there's something in your procedure, there's some problems in Ubuntu 12.04 (I read some bugs on that but I am not an expert) about nvidia-current package dependencies.

Re: Asus Eee PC 1015PN - graphic cards: Optimus and ION

Just to update, I am trying to resolve the issue on nvidia-current, I have installed nvidia drivers 310.xx from nvidia website successfully, now I have to resolve the dependencies issue.

Code:

~$ sudo apt-get install eee1015pn-acpitools build-essential debhelper module-assistant lm-sensors
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
eee1015pn-acpitools : Depends: nvidia-current but it is not going to be installed or
nvidia-glx but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Re: Asus Eee PC 1015PN - graphic cards: Optimus and ION

Dear mtron,
Now I am with Lynx
I successfully installed the package but the result is the same as presented previously.
The system is frozen in "* Starting LightDM Display Manager" and that's all.
Tomorrow I will post the content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log but consider that the last update is just before the installation of the package.
If there is some other log that can help tell me and I will try to paste it here.

Re: Asus Eee PC 1015PN - graphic cards: Optimus and ION

Originally Posted by doc.maizo

Hi mtron!
I have made a fresh install of 12.04 on the 1015pn following your instructions; everithing's ok, but I don't have HDMI audio out; in optimus mode I can send video out through HDMI but audio doesn't work.

Sorry for the late reply but i finally found a fix for this: You need to run

Code:

ck-launch-session &

on the Second X-Server (the '&' puts it to the background) Now the normal pulseaudio Volume Control tools can be used to change the output device to nvidia hdmi.

I will fix this in the next version of the acpitools package. Thanks for reporting this bug!

Re: Asus Eee PC 1015PN - graphic cards: Optimus and ION

Great! I'll try as soon as I can, thanks!

I've been having another little, but annoying, problem: sometimes (I can't say if there is some particular configuration that causes it) after the login the video output goes by default to vga and I have to press Fn+F8 to switch to lcd.
Do you know how to fix it?

Since your system seems to be totally messed up i suggest you backup your data and do a complete reinstall. Follow the linked setup instructions (use 12.04 LTS for best results) and you will get a fully working system.